29/23
I went to Juilliard
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A dead couple’s spirits are haunted by an insufferable family that has moved into their home and hires an evil spirit to exorcise them. This is Michael Keaton’s own favorite movie.. Otho’s shoes as he spray paints the walls of the house change from fire truck red elf looking shoes to white sneakers as he walks through the bathroom and then back to red elf shoes when he enters the next room. Adam: What’s your qualification Beetlejuice: Ah. Well… I graduated from Harvard Business School.
I travel quite widely
I lived through the black plague and had a pretty good time during it. I’VE SEEN THE EXORCOR APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT’S GETTING MORE FUNNY EVERY TIME YOU THINK? Do you think I’m qualified? The Geffen Company logo is accompanied by an eerie version of the Banana Boat song (sung by the film’s composer Danny Elfman). This version of the film is about 2 minutes shorter than the theatrical release, has a few extra scenes and is missing some others, is in black and white, and has a timecode at the bottom. This version has 4 major differences: Alternate Scene: The scene where Adam tried to leave the house after he and his wife died is different.
The film ends with the last exterior shot of the house
Instead of a desert, he sees an empty darkness filled with spinning teeth. Additional Scenes: A scene has been added where Lydia develops the photos she took of Adam and Barbra. Then, when her mother yells at her and accuses her of cutting into her sheets, Lydia runs upstairs and tries to convince her father that the pictures are real. There’s more to the scene where the adults search the attic for ghosts, as we saw a desert monster try to eat Adam and Barbra while they’re hanging from the attic window. Finally, there is an extra 2 minute scene at the end where we see Lydia riding her bike home from school and her parents talking to Jane on the phone telling her they don’t want to sell the house. Lydia’s dance scene is shorter in this version, and there is no scene with Beetlejuice in the waiting room.
Edited as Terror Toons (2002)
Day-OTraditional, lyrics by William A. Attaway & Irving Burgie[misspelled William A. Attaway & Irving Burgie (as Lord Burgess)] Performed by Harry Belafonte courtesy of RCA Records. Considering she’s not in the movie that much and the movie is named after her character, she steals the whole show when she’s front and center. He’s so good you’ll be in awe of him, I wouldn’t be surprised if Jim Carrey didn’t use Michael Keaton’s performance as Beetlejuice as a model for his fantastic cartoon character Stanley Ipkiss in the Mask. Love the B Movie special and the Shake Senora dance scene.
The only downfall
The small pea, however, was the Betelgeuse/Beetlejuice dilemma. I wish they explained it a little better as I thought I was dyslexic and kept checking after all these years of misreading the movie title, pausing the movie to check the title. All in all, a fun and weird movie. I would watch it just for Keaton’s performance.